Cop injured in hit-and-run identified

By Theresa Clift :
July 1, 2012
: Updated: July 1, 2012 6:47pm

James Bennack, 20, is suspected of driving while intoxicated and crashing into an off-duty cop, then fleeing the scene of the crash, Saturday night.

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Raelyn Bennack, 22, is accused of interfering with the duties of a police officer after a suspected drunken driver struck an off-duty cop Saturday night.

A suspected drunken driver is accused of fleeing the scene after he crashed into an off-duty San Antonio police officer Saturday night.

James Bennack, 20, is being held in the Bexar County Jail on charges of intoxication assault and failure to stop and render aid. A judge set bail at $60,000.

Around 11 p.m. Saturday, four-year veteran Albert Trevino was on his first day of vacation and riding a motorcycle south on Fredericksburg Road when a pickup traveling the same direction tried to pass another car, police said.

The pickup struck Trevino's cycle, dragging him and the cycle about 100 yards, police said. He was taken to University Hospital, where he remains in stable condition.

Police said the pickup didn't stop after the crash, and officers found the wrecked vehicle at an apartment complex nearby. There, according to a police spokesman, a woman interfered with officers trying to arrest Bennack; Raelyn Bennack, 22, was then arrested and released after posting $1,000 bail on one count of interfering with the duties of a police officer.